Tagged with: environment
Make Agriculture Exciting Again
Kieran Harrahill 18/10/2022
The question of how agriculture in Ireland can adapt to the need to reduce emissions has become a contentious issue recently. Agriculture has a large impact on Greenhouse gas emission creation in Ireland, accounting for around 37% of Greenhouse Gas emissions created in the country. Farming practices also impact Ireland’s biodiversity and the …
From Free Market to Subsidised Capitalism
Paul Sweeney 13/10/2022
There has been a revolutionary transformation of Capitalism, the western economic system, in just over a decade. Four extraordinary events have …
A recipe for climate action
Chythenyen Devika Kulasekaran 28/07/2022
For a long time, the economy was regarded as the "system," while the environment and society were regarded as "sub-systems." The global economy is …
Lost in percentages
Sean McCabe 11/05/2020
Time is running out There remains only a small window of opportunity to enact the necessary climate action required to avoid catastrophic …
The Massive Impact of Driverless Cars, Blog 1.
Paul Sweeney 20/10/2016
Paul Sweeney: A few weeks ago, Uber introduced the first driverless cars on the road: a self-driving taxi fleet in Pittsburgh. Uber, partnered with …
Budget 2012: carbon tax, motor tax and motivations
Aoife Ní Lochlainn 02/12/2011
Aoife Ní Lochlainn: As we get closer to the budget day (or budget days), the shape of Government plans is becoming clearer. We know, both from leaks …
Uno duce, una voce
Nat O'Connor 05/02/2010
Nat O'Connor: I cannot allow two recent stories in the papers to go by without comment. Today's Irish Independent reports (in a story about Enda …
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Robert Sweeney
Robert Sweeney is a policy analyst at TASC and focuses on issues surrounding Irish …
Sean McCabe
Sean holds an B.Sc in Applied Physics from Dublin City University and an M.Sc. in …
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Paul Sweeney is former Chief Economist of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions. He was a …